[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-2879) add an actual api for loading an entity by natural candidate key (mapped natural-id)

[Steve Ebersole (JIRA)]

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Steve Ebersole commented on HHH-2879:
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Be sure to see HHH-2896 in terms of discussion of this feature.  However, the initial work, done as a pull request, referenced this issue instead.  Really its my fault for having 2 distinct issues here.

> add an actual api for loading an entity by natural candidate key (mapped natural-id)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HHH-2879
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2879
>             Project: Hibernate ORM
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Steve Ebersole
>            Assignee: Steve Ebersole
>             Fix For: 4.1.0
>
>
> Currently, natural-id "loading' is only available through some incomplete criteria query hackery.  Would like to expose a proper API for performing natural-id loading. 
> Eventually would be great to have this coordinated with the effort to cleanup the Session API and so have a unified way to load entities.  (NOTE : the contract name I am using for the time being is EntityLoadAccess, although i am not tied to this). - see HHH-2896
> Something like:
> Session.getNaturalKeyEntityLoadAccess( MyEntity.class ).get( key )

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